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r600/r700-support will be dropped in fglrx as soon as it will be dropped in the windows-drivers. Not sooner, not later.

When it will be dropped in the windows drivers is currently unknown (even to AMD), but it won't be anytime soon while the hardware is still being sold.

There was some talk about that in this thread and the following pages.

If you add bridgman's posts together and ask your crystal ball, you'd see that you needn't worry for at least two more years. In all likelihood quite a bit more. Expecting a drop next month is either being uninformed or downright trolling.
Besides, in two years both the OS drivers and the underlying linux gfx stack will be mature and fast enough that very few consumers will care about fglrx anyway.

(Disclaimer: predictions about the future may or may not apply to the actual timeline you happen to exist in)

I hope that AMD just drop the support of linux driver for R600/R700. I install Catalyst 10.1 and run Savage 2 and HoN. So badly I can not play them. It is full of bugs.

Why not opensource their drivers like Intel? OSS drivers do better than AMD's.

AMD should not add new features to their drivers, before fixing the bugs and improving the performance. 2D acceleration should be switched from XAA to EXA.

I have uninstalled Catalyst 10.1 on my father's karmic. I will install the latest mesa and xf86-video-ati and kernel-2.6.32 from PPA.

r600/r700-support will be dropped in fglrx as soon as it will be dropped in the windows-drivers. Not sooner, not later.

When it will be dropped in the windows drivers is currently unknown (even to AMD), but it won't be anytime soon while the hardware is still being sold.

There was some talk about that in this thread and the following pages.

If you add bridgman's posts together and ask your crystal ball, you'd see that you needn't worry for at least two more years. In all likelihood quite a bit more. Expecting a drop next month is either being uninformed or downright trolling.
Besides, in two years both the OS drivers and the underlying linux gfx stack will be mature and fast enough that very few consumers will care about fglrx anyway.

(Disclaimer: predictions about the future may or may not apply to the actual timeline you happen to exist in)

I hope that AMD just drop the support of linux driver for R600/R700. I install Catalyst 10.1 and run Savage 2 and HoN. So badly I can not play them. It is full of bugs.

Why not opensource their drivers like Intel? OSS drivers do better than AMD's.

AMD should not add new features to their drivers, before fixing the bugs and improving the performance. 2D acceleration should be switched from XAA to EXA.

I have uninstalled Catalyst 10.1 on my father's karmic. I will install the latest mesa and xf86-video-ati and kernel-2.6.32 from PPA.

I hope that AMD just drop the support of linux driver for R600/R700. I install Catalyst 10.1 and run Savage 2 and HoN. So badly I can not play them. It is full of bugs.

Why not opensource their drivers like Intel? OSS drivers do better than AMD's.

AMD should not add new features to their drivers, before fixing the bugs and improving the performance. 2D acceleration should be switched from XAA to EXA.

I have uninstalled Catalyst 10.1 on my father's karmic. I will install the latest mesa and xf86-video-ati and kernel-2.6.32 from PPA.

I don't know what's more confusing about this post: The fact that AMD DID open source their cards in the same way Intel did, or the fact that the poster even mentions AMD's open source project in the same post.